About “Nightmares of the Bottom”

Previewed early in a Lil Wayne “I Am The Music Tour” freestyle, this song plays on the age old “lonely at the top” cliche, but revealing the inverse- the fear of a fall from grace. It’s uncharacteristically heartfelt and sentimental, including a rare admission of his fallibility, but as with most of Wayne’s songs it falls back into exaggerated bravado. Of particular note is the resurrection of his Weezy F Baby nickname, one of the rapper’s many, many aliases.